The Selfish GeneOxford University Press, 1978 - 224 pagina's As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. |
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... behave on this occasion like a hawk or like a dove ; random , but with a 7 : 5 bias in favour of hawk . It is very important that the decisions , although biased towards hawk , should be random in the sense that a rival has no way of ...
... behave on this occasion like a hawk or like a dove ; random , but with a 7 : 5 bias in favour of hawk . It is very important that the decisions , although biased towards hawk , should be random in the sense that a rival has no way of ...
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... behave towards other males as if they were nearly half brothers would have positive survival value . Any gene which went too far , and made males behave in a friendly way more appropriate to full brothers would on average be penalized ...
... behave towards other males as if they were nearly half brothers would have positive survival value . Any gene which went too far , and made males behave in a friendly way more appropriate to full brothers would on average be penalized ...
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... behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ' . Just as we have found it convenient to think of genes as active agents , working purposefully for their ...
... behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ' . Just as we have found it convenient to think of genes as active agents , working purposefully for their ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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